Christina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist and essayist. Kline is the recipient of several Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships. She has been a Writer-in-Residence Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Penrose Writers’ Colony, and Haystack Writers’ Symposium in Maine. She received a Fordham Research Grant in 2009.
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Kline is a graduate of Yale (B.A. in English), Cambridge University (M.A. in Literature), and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing.
Kline is currently Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature.[1] She also teaches in the Fordham-in-London program at the University of London, Heythrop College. She has taught literature and creative writing at Yale, NYU, the University of Virginia, and Drew University.
Kline is married to David Kline, who works at Showtime Networks in New York City. They live in Montclair, New Jersey with their three sons, Hayden, Will, and Eli, and spend as much time as possible with extended family on Mount Desert Island in Maine.